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Read Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus
Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

Microsoft pays $3m to add 1.4 acres to its Atlanta campus

April 29, 2021 Microsoft East Point

Tech giants Microsoft has bought 1.4 acres of land for $3 million to expand its planned Westside campus. The land is situated on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, in the Grove Park area close to Atlanta. This purchase is after Microsoft acquired 90 acres of land in February for its proposed Westside...

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Read Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties
Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties

Microsoft's next US data center region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas counties

February 11, 2021 Microsoft East Point

Responding to what it called “growing customer demand,” Microsoft recently announced its next US data center region. Named “East US 3,” it will have a presence in Georgia's Fulton and Douglas counties. The data center region will be accompanied by new office space stretching out to 90 acres....

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Read STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW
STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

STACK Acquires Land in Atlanta and plans to Expand Campus Capacity to 20 MW

May 15, 2020 STACK Atlanta ATL02

Stack Infrastructure announced plans to expand its Alpharetta facility and more than double its digital infrastructure capacity to nearly 20 megawatts.STACK currently operates a 105,000 sqft, 7 MW data center on 12 acres at 3200 Webb Bridge Road. The company now plans to build a 2-story facility...

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Read Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020
Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

Google Slows Hiring for Remainder of 2020

April 15, 2020 Google

Google has announced a significant slow down in new staff hires. Bloomberg published an email from CEO Sundar Pichai which details its plan to recalibrate hiring because of the economic slowdown. In 2019, Google hired 20,000 people and had planned to hire an additional 20,000 employees. The...

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Read Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia
Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia

November 21, 2019 Meta Newton Campus (Atlanta)

Silicon Ranch has agreed to build a 107-megawatt solar project to power the Facebook data center in Newton County, Ga. Silicon Ranch, the U.S. solar platform for Shell and one of the largest independent solar power producers in the country, contracted with Walton Electric Membership Corporation...

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Read QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus
QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

QTS will expand Atlanta-Metro Campus

November 04, 2019 QTS: Atlanta 1 Campus

QTS is expanding its Atlanta-Metro data center campus. The expansion will include the development of a new data center totaling more than 250,000 square feet of leasable capacity and 72 critical megawatts of incremental power capacity, adjacent to QTS’ existing mega data center. The Company...

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Read NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta
NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

NewCloud Establishes New Node at H5 in Atlanta

June 06, 2019 H5 Atlanta

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Atlanta data center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility as a new market deployment. The announcement comes on the heals of NewCloud's expansion with H5 Cleveland back in March.Data Center sales often...

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Read Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion
Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

Flexential Announced the Completion of the Alpharetta 70,000 SqFt Expansion

May 15, 2019 Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

In a press release, Flexential announced the completion of the Alpharetta expansion. The expansion added 70,000 square feet of additional space.The company stated it is targeting FinTech with the data center and pointed to their current customer Delta Community Credit Union as an example...

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Read DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant
DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

DataBank Opens their new ATL1 Facility with Georgia Institute of Technology as an Anchor Tenant

February 28, 2019 DataBank Atlanta ATL1

Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2019 – DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, connectivity and managed services, announces the opening of its ATL1 data center in Atlanta. Located at 760 West Peachtree Street NW, ATL1 is part of the CODA development, a 645,000 square foot...

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Read Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)
Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

Google's Curie Cable System to Land at Equinix LA4 (PR)

February 07, 2019 Google

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Google has selected Equinix for its Los Angeles area cable landing station (CLS) supporting the Curie subsea cable system, the first subsea cable to Chile in...

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Read EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)
EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)

EdgeConneX Announces Second Atlanta Data Center (PR)

August 21, 2018 EdgeConneX Atlanta Campus

Herndon, VA – EdgeConneX®, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces the creation of an Edge Data Center® (EDC) campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The new EDC, ATL02, brings 15MW of additional critical power capacity to market. The Edge Campus will be able...

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Read Colony Bank Chooses Colo Atl Data Center
Colo Atl, the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection services at 55 Marietta Street in Atlanta, is proud to welcome Colony Bankcorp, Inc., a bank holding co...

Colony Bank Chooses Colo Atl Data Center

July 24, 2018 American Tower: 55 Marietta

Colo Atl, the leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation, data center and interconnection services at 55 Marietta Street in Atlanta, is proud to welcome Colony Bankcorp, Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in Fitzgerald, GA with twenty-seven offices located in central, southern and...

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Read Flexential Adds 70,000 SqFt of Capacity at Alpharetta Data Center
Flexential is expanding at their Alpharetta data center site. The new two-story data center will add 75,000 sqft to the existing 15,000 sqft site. The new site will host both retail and wholesale c...

Flexential Adds 70,000 SqFt of Capacity at Alpharetta Data Center

July 15, 2018 Flexential Atlanta-Alpharetta

Flexential is expanding at their Alpharetta data center site. The new two-story data center will add 75,000 sqft to the existing 15,000 sqft site. The new site will host both retail and wholesale customers. Press Release: Flexential.com

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